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KRESGE AUDITORIUM (MIT). MIT Symphony Orchestra. Mozart: Figaro overture; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Yasuo Watanabe, soloist); Sibelius: Symphony No. 2. Tickets: $1. Saturday, November...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. All-Mozart program: Figaro overture, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 35, Oboe Concerto in C (Stephen Hammer, soloist). Tickets: $.95. Saturday, November 17, Midnight...
CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor, demands not only precision but also sensitivity, which the world-renowned cellist was either unwilling or unable to furnish...
...further short-sightedness when he rotated the instrumentalists within his wind section--an extraordinary policy which resulted in a superb flute performance in Stravinsky's Petrushka and then abysmal, brittle, out-of-tune music from the flutes and oboes in the Dvorak. The sloppy wind performance in the cello concerto obscured a strong effort by the strings to match at least partially the virtuosity of Starker...
...Hindemith, the audience had stopped rattling their programs and was ready for Starker. But he was not ready for them. He performed the first movement of Vivaldi's concerto in D major for cello--a violin concerto rescored for cello--as though his appearance were just another night shift on the assembly line. He payed little attention to the orchestra, which had difficulty adjusting to the soloist's rhythm. In the second movement, Starker finally shed his coldness, swaying his body to listen to the concertmaster and moving his eyebrows as he explored the beauty of Vivaldi's larghetto...